06/06/2025
Live and direct from Tokyo’s electronic underground, Submerse delivers a stunning four-tracker that feels both deeply personal and perfectly dancefloor-tuned. You’ve Been Here Before is equal parts soul and science — a record that reaches into the past while sounding utterly fresh, rich in feeling and precision-engineered.
The title track, You’ve Been Here Before, opens with lush string pads, sliced ’n’ diced drum patterns and booming subs — a nod to the genre’s history but pushed into new territory with signature Submerse flair.
On No Other, soulful pad work and elegantly placed vocals glide over rolling breaks and deepcut amen chops, all wrapped in airy, melodic synths. This is emotional jungle done right — tactile, thoughtful and heavy when it counts.
Organ Retriever turns up the grit, with crunching breaks that lead the charge in what can only be described as prime time rinse-out business — tough but always with that unmistakable Submerse soul. Nuff said.
Rounding things off is 204863, a bright, uplifting roller that balances nostalgia and propulsion. With tasteful gated vocals, tight rolling breakage and the lightness of early ’90s atmospheric jungle, this one gets the balance just right. Like the end of a rave and the sunrise that follows.
